Category: General

Categories and tags are the two default taxonomies that we use at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community website. By design, all posts must be filed under at least one category. As you can imagine, ‘General’ is where we can list almost any topics that is not filed under the other subject headings.

However, some subjects are wide and broad in subject and need to be included in our blog, but don’t quite fit under the existing taxonomies. Hence the ‘General Category’. Content covered can vary from a .NET Runtime for AOT to a SharePoint Conference North America Keynote Summary, Pulse Survey or monthly top SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure resources.

The Role of Reporting in Governance
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The key to managing SharePoint is having visibility into what is happening within the system,  and being able to make informed decisions based on data, both real-time and historical.  Reporting is a vital element of a sound Governance strategy and plan, and should provide you with information and intelligence at each level of your SharePoint… READ MORE

Four Steps to a Faster, Happier Microsoft SharePoint Deployment
Four Steps to a Faster, Happier Microsoft SharePoint Deployment
Blog Posts

One customer was faxing documents back and forth rather than waiting for slow Microsoft SharePoint® downloads. It’s not SharePoint’s fault; it’s often other factors outside SharePoint involving the network. Fact is, people will drop any technology like a hot brick when the WAN slows the end-user experience.

Don't SharePoint While Walking
Don’t SharePoint While Walking
Blog Posts

Harmon.ie has made it even easier to access SharePoint by making a mobile app that is available for tablets and smartphones. It has led to making this video to spread the word, and I was hoping that you wouldn’t mind mentioning it on your site.

10 steps to becoming a SharePoint MVP
10 steps to becoming a SharePoint MVP
Blog Posts

A couple years back, my team posted to our company blog a brief article on what it takes to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). While short on information, it has continued to be the most viewed article on our company blog. Microsoft gives out these awards quarterly as a way to recognize individuals for their past 12 months of technical and community excellence. In recent weeks, I’ve had several conversations with fellow MVPs about their path to MVP status, as well as questions from a few folks who would like to get onto the path of earning their MVP, and so I thought I’d share my perspective on the process.

Delivering Business Value Using SharePoint & Capture Enabled BPM
Delivering Business Value Using SharePoint & Capture Enabled BPM
Blog Posts

While the case for taking an enterprise view of data capture into Microsoft SharePoint is persuasive, actually implementing the strategy is more challenging. In the US and Europe alone more than 20 million tons of office paper is produced and consumed every year. The use of paper remains pervasive across many industries, resulting in high administrative overhead costs and too many points of failure as documents are routed throughout the organization. The cost to file a single paper document is $20, while searching for a misfiled document costs $120 and reproducing a lost document is estimated to cost $220. The total cost of printing, copying, storing and mailing is 10 times the original purchase price of the paper itself. Despite these costs, a recent survey by AIIM showed less than 30% of SharePoint users are managing scanned documents in SharePoint.1 Those that are scanning documents to SharePoint are doing simple ad-hoc scanning, capturing single documents for storage in SharePoint. They are not performing scan to process, capturing documents at the point of origination, and entering them directly into the business process with minimal manual intervention.

Your #SharePoint Adoption Agency Has Arrived. AttachThis v2.0 is Here For All Users
Your #SharePoint Adoption Agency Has Arrived. AttachThis v2.0 is Here For All Users
Blog Posts

There is nothing more frustrating than rolling out a shiny new SharePoint farm to notice that 6 months later not a lot is going on. This isn’t some sort of conspiracy theory but it’s the simple fact that we have many ingrained business processes around sharing documents and it is very very hard to change those, even with a clearly more superior system being availalbe.

Using the Chrome Control in SharePoint 2013 Apps
Using the Chrome Control in SharePoint 2013 Apps
Blog Posts

In the new SharePoint 2013 App model, there are essentially two ways to host apps – within SharePoint itself or from an external web site (also known as “provider hosted” or “autohosted”). One of the disadvantages of external apps is that they don’t look or feel like SharePoint. All the familiar navigation menus and shortcuts are missing, resulting in a stark contrast between the default SharePoint visual experience and whichever app is currently being used unless the app developer went the extra mile (or ten) to style their app.